2 census tracts · pop 8,494 · pop-weighted Eviction Risk Score 5/10
· range 4.5–5.4
Liberty Wells is a 2-tract neighborhood of Salt Lake City, UT and houses 8,494 people. The Eviction Risk Score is 5/10, in the Moderate tier. Against a Salt Lake City baseline of 30.4%, 50% of renters here cross the 30%-of-income line.
The severe-burden share is 25%. Those renters are past the 50% mark, and they miss rent for reasons that have nothing to do with willingness to pay. Pulling the other way is supply constraint, at 2.3/10.
Filings are well documented here: 522 across 2 observed tracts. The poverty rate is 17%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than the filing statistics suggest. Running cool is rent-regulation exposure, at 3/10.
Filing activity peaked in 2016 at 5.3% of renter households. Average gross rent is $1,277, 10% below the Salt Lake City average of $1,414.
Among the 26 mapped neighborhoods of Salt Lake City, it ranks #12 by risk, the middle third. Judgments average 1.5% of renter households a year, the share of filings that actually convert to an order.
For a like-for-like read, Windsor Circle and Thompsons score within a fraction of it. Against average income of $78,148, annual rent is only 20%, a wide affordability cushion. The 2 tracts here are tightly clustered, 0.9 points apart at the extremes.
46% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
With little internal variation, 5/10 is a fair proxy for any address inside the boundary. The number is rebuilt whenever its ACS, court-record, or statutory inputs change.
Risk score
5
Moderate
2 tracts · population-weighted
Liberty Wells vs Salt Lake CityHow this neighborhood stacks against the citywide average
Single-parent HH, disability, language barriers, age 17- / 65+
Racial/ethnic minority40%ile
Hispanic + non-white share of population
Housing & transport45%ile
Multi-unit structures, mobile homes, crowding, no vehicle
Eviction filings · Princeton Eviction Lab
Court-record eviction history in Liberty Wells
Aggregated across 2 validated constituent tracts. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households, pop-weighted.
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
522Total filings (sum)
3.17%Avg annual filing rate
5.3%Peak year (2016)
3.54%Latest filed (2016)
CDC PLACES 2023 · pop-weighted
Eviction-adjacent indicators in Liberty Wells
Average across all constituent tracts, population-weighted. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh) crude prevalence.
12.3%Housing insecurity
8.3%Utility shutoff threat
16.0%Food insecurity
8.6%SNAP enrollment
11.8%No health insurance
29.7%Any disability
Frequently asked
About Liberty Wells
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for Liberty Wells?
Liberty Wells scores 5/10 (Moderate tier) across 2 census tracts. The pop-weighted Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income and poverty signals.
Q2
How does Liberty Wells compare to Salt Lake City overall?
Liberty Wells scores 1.0 points higher than Salt Lake City overall (4/10). Renters spend 50% of income on rent vs 30% citywide. Average rent: $1,277 vs $1,414.
Q3
What is the average rent in Liberty Wells?
Average gross rent in Liberty Wells is $1,277/month (pop-weighted across 2 census tracts, ACS 5-year 2023). 50% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q4
What percentage of Liberty Wells residents are renters?
46% of Liberty Wells households are renter-occupied (vs 54% in Salt Lake City). The neighborhood has 8,494 residents.
Q5
Is Liberty Wells a high social-vulnerability area?
Liberty Wells sits in the 50th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index (moderately vulnerable). The index combines poverty, unemployment, household composition, racial/ethnic minority share, and housing/transportation factors across all US census tracts.
Q6
Which tracts in Liberty Wells have the highest eviction risk?
The highest-risk constituent tract in Liberty Wells is census tract 49035103200 (score 5.4/10). Across the 2 tracts in this neighborhood the score ranges from 4.5 to 5.4, a spread of 0.9 points.
Q7
How safe is Liberty Wells for landlords?
Liberty Wells carries a moderate-tier eviction-risk profile for landlords (5/10). Pop-weighted across 2 constituent tracts, the score blends parent-city rent-control posture, county eviction-process timelines, and tract-specific rent-to-income / poverty signals. Compared to Salt Lake City as a whole (4/10), this neighborhood is higher-risk.
Q8
What is the demographic breakdown of Liberty Wells?
Liberty Wells has 8,574 residents. Top groups: White (non-Hispanic) (71.4%), Hispanic / Latino (18.3%), Other / Multiracial (6.3%). Source: ACS 5-year 2023, table B03002.
